Quote of the day
2005-03-24 06:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbear(actually yesterday in the break room at work, but...)
"Theft of intellectual property is theft." (PH, quoting from a Wall Street Journal opinion piece in a (successful) attempt to start a discussion.)
"No, because intellectual property isn't property." (Me, observing that copyright infringement is defined differently, and that IP isn't tangible.)
"So it's not a tautology, it's an oxymoron." (Either![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mr_kurt or finagler; I forget which.)
"Theft of intellectual property is theft." (PH, quoting from a Wall Street Journal opinion piece in a (successful) attempt to start a discussion.)
"No, because intellectual property isn't property." (Me, observing that copyright infringement is defined differently, and that IP isn't tangible.)
"So it's not a tautology, it's an oxymoron." (Either
mr_kurt or finagler; I forget which.)